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mark down

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mark someone down
[for a teacher] to give someone a low score. He'll mark you down for misspelled words. I marked down Tom for bad spelling.
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mark something down 

1. Lit. to write something down on paper. She marked the number down on the paper. She marked down the number.
2. Fig. to reduce the price of something. We are going to mark all this merchandise down next Monday. We marked down the merchandise.
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mark down something also mark something down
to reduce the price of something The machine, originally priced at $50, was marked down to $37.50. If it doesn't sell at full price, we'll have to mark it down.
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Being well-known to the attendants, she always had a seat provided for her; and, taking some gold and a few thousand-franc notes out of her pocket--would begin quietly, coldly, and after much calculation, to stake, and mark down the figures in pencil on a paper, as though striving to work out a system according to which, at given moments, the odds might group themselves.
He will get on to Paris, mark down our luggage, and wait for two days at the depot.
Mark down her necklace, Bunny, and invoice his stud.
 
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